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... it's the air the Icahn backs down this is what's news I'm WS J live I'm Joann Co ... activist investor Carl Icahn is dropping his campaign to force Apple to increase its stock buyback plans ... Mr. Icahn's decision to drop his effort ... follows an influential proxy adviser's recommendation to Apple shareholders to reject Mr. Icahn's proposal that the company buy back fifty billion dollars of its stock ... in an open letter to Apple shareholders Mr. Icahn also citing the tech firms recent stock repurchases ... as a reason why he's ending his campaign ... AOL CEO Tim Armstrong says the company is reversing a recent change to its benefits policy ... he's also apologizing for comments he used to explain the initial change to the for one k plan comments which angered employees and social media ... AOL had recently decided to give employees the lump sum contribution to their for one k retirement accounts ... at year end instead of matching contributions each pay period ... last week Mr. Armstrong blamed the unpopular policy change on increased health care costs ... specifically the cost of care for two staffers quote ... distressed babies in twenty twelve which cost the company about a million dollars each ... a mother of one of the BB's went public over the weekend to criticize Mr Armstrong ... any sort of the little town where the arrow is pointing ... astronomers in Australia discover what they say is the oldest known star ... they estimate the star was formed thirteen point six and the lean years ago ... the astronomers found a star in the Milky way galaxy around six thousand light years away ... ages star was born about simply shortly after the big band ... and is four hundred million years older than the previously identified with the stock ... but he keep us anomaly this is about as rapid and what's news I'm WS J last I'm Joann Co ...